https://faq.i3wm.org/questions/Frequently asked questions and answers about the i3 window managerenCopyright i3, 2012Thu, 27 Nov 2014 16:08:52 +0000https://faq.i3wm.org/question/5031/i3bar-conky-is-positioning-the-output-possible/Hi! I'm using I3bar with Conky as status command. Everything works as expected. How would I go about moving the whole status bar a bit to the left? Is it possible to specify X and Y positions with i3bar+conky? Thu, 27 Nov 2014 07:54:27 +0000https://faq.i3wm.org/question/5031/i3bar-conky-is-positioning-the-output-possible/https://faq.i3wm.org/question/5031/i3bar-conky-is-positioning-the-output-possible/?answer=5032#post-id-5032*i3bar* itself has no options for positioning the status output. It is always on the right, either next to edge of the screen or next to the tray. I do not know what capabilities conky has to move things around, but the following wrapper script should do as a workaround #!/bin/sh conky | while : do read line echo "$line " || exit 1 done This just adds two spaces on the right. The script is inspired by (ripped off) the instructions for using external commands in the `i3status` manpage.Thu, 27 Nov 2014 09:34:28 +0000https://faq.i3wm.org/question/5031/i3bar-conky-is-positioning-the-output-possible/?answer=5032#post-id-5032https://faq.i3wm.org/question/5031/i3bar-conky-is-positioning-the-output-possible/?answer=5034#post-id-5034As an alternative to the pipe script solution, you can change your `.conkyrc` by adding a dummy element and using `i3bar`'s separator properties: ,{ \ "full_text": "Last Element", \ "separator": false, \ "separator_block_width": 50 \ } \ ,{ \ "full_text": "" \ } \ The `50` will change the widht of the gap to the right. Of course, instead of using `separator_block_width` you can also just use spaces in the dummy element's `full_text` property. You'll still need `separator: false`, though. One advantage to is that you don't need another shell level in your chain. By the way: the `\` are used to turn the JSON into one physical line which improves the performance of `i3bar`'s parsing by quite a bit.Thu, 27 Nov 2014 16:08:52 +0000https://faq.i3wm.org/question/5031/i3bar-conky-is-positioning-the-output-possible/?answer=5034#post-id-5034